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Creative Concepts / Image Manipulation - Example 1
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Now before we get into the meat and potatoes of manipulating photographs in Photoshop, a couple of questions that you have to answer, not just a couple but a bunch of questions you have to answer about just any photograph that you are going to do work to. Now the obvious technical issues when you open a photograph are going to jump right out at you and those things are: is the picture in focus, is it too bright, is it too dark, is the subject centered properly, is it out of focus; there are a number of issues just technically that will jump right out at you, and you immediately know you've got to do work for. The other things that you have to answer about a photograph that will dictate what you do from a technical standpoint are what is this photograph going to be used for? And by that I mean is it going to hang in your wall, is it going to go to grandma's; there is a picture of your kids,you are going to send to grandma and grandpa. Is this maybe an advertising piece for something at work? The issue of what you are going to do to it from a technical standpoint in Photoshop is answered by what are you going to do with the photograph? You might think that is a kind of a dumb question; you might kind of think well that is you know, really a simple thing, everybody knows what they are going to do to the photograph, but you got to really define what is my purpose in doing this work? What is it going to achieve? You just do not go running rampant through every photograph and think you've got to change every one you look at; you don't. This is a very good example of that concept. This is a photograph, just parenthetically, this is a slide, a Kodak color slide film that was taken about, I guess about thirty years ago, actually and this is a representation of the raw scan, you are looking at the raw scan. So the slide has held up over the years very, very well, the skin tone really surprised me how good the skin tone turned out, deep saturation in the yellows, blue bathing suit, and all the detail in the hands, in the face and in the lines, in the bathing suit. The other thing that I love about this is that there is just a hint of clouds in the background, they are out of focus, which centers your attention on the model. Very little neeeds to be done to this and by that I mean we probably need to focus just a little bit, because I think there is just a little bit too much headroom up here so we are going to crop this some, and I am leaving this area open over here because I think it really opens up the photograph, it gives it more of a dramatic feel, maybe it looks better, it does not crowd the model at all. So we are not going to crop it too terribly much. The only other thing we might do is resize it for printing, and I will resize this to fit on an eight and a half by eleven piece of paper that just about any printer can deal with, that you might have in your home, and after this resizes we will bring it back and then maybe just a bit of sharpening, it's the only thing I can think that really needs to be really done to this. We will sharpen this just a bit, and let me go to hundred and fifty percent on this, there you go, that's perfect. You might not be able to see this in the tutorial itself, but trust me it is a vast improvement, really brings out the eyes, sharpening does one thing really nice and that is brings out the eyes. Even though they are shaded, you can still see them, they still have an emotion to them, and sharpening those really accentuates your photographs. So we are going to leave that just like it is and voilˆ, there you have it; that's a complete process of what needs to be done to this particular photograph. So the lesson I guess is, know when a photograph needs something done to it, but you also need to know when not to do something. Know when you have got a good photograph in front of you and leave it alone if it is good. Do not think just because you know just about everything there is know about how to do stuff in Photoshop that you have to do it, because you do not. Nine times out of ten when you approach a project with that attitude, you are going to end up screwing it up, it is going to look worse than it originally did. So judge it for what it is and if it is good enough, then leave it alone.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration |
| Author: | Phil Hawkins |
| SKU: | 33473 |
| ISBN: | 1932072705 |
| Release Date: | 2004-01-27 |
| Duration: | 4.5 hrs / 77 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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